Where does “cần cau” come from?
cần cau (Muong) comes from Vietnamese cần câu, from Vietnamese cân, from French calque, from French calquer, from English ER, from Turkish er, from Ottoman Turkish ایر, from Old Anatolian Turkish ایر — saddle.
cần cau (Muong): fishing rod
Definitions
- fishing rod
Ancestry of “cần cau”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | cần câu | fishing rod |
| 2 | Vietnamese | cân | kilogram; a weighing instrument; a balance,... |
| 3 | French | calque | tracing; calque, loan translation; layer |
| 4 | French | calquer | to model, to imitate, to copy; to trace, to copy... |
| 5 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 6 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 7 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 8 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 9 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |